{"id":17628,"date":"2012-11-20T22:11:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T21:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=17628"},"modified":"2012-11-20T22:11:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T21:11:53","slug":"bolton-calls-for-use-of-torture-on-benghazi-suspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/bolton-calls-for-use-of-torture-on-benghazi-suspects\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolton calls for use of torture on Benghazi suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Edwards, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2012\/11\/20\/bolton-use-rendition-to-guantanamo-and-gentle-persuasion-for-benghazi-suspects\/?\" target=\"_blank\">RAW Story<\/a> |<\/p>\n<p>Neoconservative former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nation John Bolton is suggesting that the U.S. should restart its practices of using \u201crendition\u201d and torture to investigate the September attacks in Benghazi, Libya.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview on Tuesday, Fox News host Martha MacCallum told Bolton that she was frustrated that \u201cwe\u2019re two months out, and it seems to me, nowhere\u201d in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton, who served as an adviser to former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, replied by blasting President Barack Obama\u2019s administration for treating the attack \u201clike it\u2019s a bigger bank robbery\u201d and allowing the FBI to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s through the counterterrorism efforts internationally of the CIA and other elements of the intelligence community that we\u2019re most likely to find out who did it, track them down and do that terrible thing that the Obama administration doesn\u2019t like to do, use rendition to get these people to Guantanamo Bay and try a little gentle persuasion to see what might have happened,\u201d he opined.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 22, 2009, Obama\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the_press_office\/EnsuringLawfulInterrogations\/\">signed an executive order<\/a>\u00a0ending former President George W. Bush\u2019s practice of enhanced interrogations, which included techniques that many human rights advocates described as torture. The order also halted \u201cextreme renditions\u201d or the transfer of prisoners to countries that use torture.<\/p>\n<p>During his 2008 campaign, then-Sen. Obama had also promised to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp but the center remains open due to push back from Congress.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/video\/2012\/11\/20\/foxs-bolton-to-investigate-benghazi-use-renditi\/191471\" target=\"_blank\">Watch this video from Fox News\u2019\u00a0<em>America Live<\/em>, broadcast Nov. 20, 2012.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Edwards, RAW Story | Neoconservative former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nation John Bolton is suggesting that the U.S. should restart its practices of using \u201crendition\u201d and torture to investigate the September attacks in Benghazi, Libya. During an interview on Tuesday, Fox News host Martha MacCallum told Bolton that she was frustrated that \u201cwe\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[51],"class_list":{"0":"post-17628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-human-rights","7":"category-latest-news","8":"tag-torture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}